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OK, this whole Harry Potter thing - while completely out of proportion to any real value in the books - has up till now been pointless but essentially harmless. But
wasting a Hugo Award on this crap?! To quote (oh, I don't know, some Clinton-hating Republican):
"Where's the outrage?!"
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:52 PM on September 5, 2001
(60 comments)
In the midst of being indignant over the death of the BeOS,
Scot Hacker talks about Microsoft's OEM license with hardware vendors. Although Microsoft claims the terms of the agreement are a "trade secret," preventing it from making appearnce in the DOJ circus, apparently it prevents OEMs from installing
any non-Microsoft OS along side a Microsoft OS... If true, the "browser integration" thing's just a minor annoyance -
this would be monopolistic and anti-competitive...
via rc3.org
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 8:18 AM on August 31, 2001
(9 comments)
Stolen shamelessly from
Tom: a charming
clock, reminding us once again that "time" is an intellectual concept meaningless without human participation... (Don't miss
the webserver, either.) Considering the depth and breadth - and apparent copious free time - of the MeFi community one would hope we'd be able to
help fill in some of the still
unphotographed minutes.
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 6:29 PM on July 27, 2001
(3 comments)
Loosening the noose...
but still leaving the rope around the neck.
"Far from hastening its own demise by allowing the Internet to penetrate its borders, an authoritarian state can actually utilize the Internet to its own benefit and increase its stability by engaging with the technology." An interesting - if not entirely expected - report on Internet access in Cuba and the People's Republic of China.
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 4:59 AM on July 18, 2001
(2 comments)
You can forget all about that "goat sex" photo thing when there's something as horrifying as
this closeup available for public viewing. Good God, he's barely
human at this point! All I could think of once it loaded was: "That's just
not right."
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 2:39 PM on June 24, 2001
(20 comments)
I usually just ignore Jakob - he has his right to his opinions, tho' I seldom agree with him - but I draw the line at
misrepresenting a technology so egregiously... Acrobat's not that hard to understand; I can't believe it's possible for Neilsen to not know that the features he berates Acrobat for
missing are, in actuality, right there to be used.
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at 7:33 PM on June 17, 2001
(37 comments)
Apparently, the Lt. Governor of Illinois has
WAY too much time on her hands.... Of course, rallying public support for a boycott of Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't really
seem like what she was
elected to do, but hey, never hurts to throw your title around when your teenagers are going ga-ga over half-naked muscle-boys, huh?
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 3:41 PM on June 15, 2001
(24 comments)
My God, how I've loathed them over the years for their heart-stopping mix of hubris, brilliance, clueless, utter lack of any discipline whatsoever and oh, the sheer
arrogance, but after all these years, it's with a distinct sense of ennui that I read that
Netscape is throwing in the towel.
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 5:14 AM on June 6, 2001
(53 comments)
"Peace?
Peace?
We don' need no steenken' peace!" Israel rejects freeze on continued building of illegal settlements in West Bank and Gaza; Apocalypse at eleven...
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 5:45 AM on May 14, 2001
(57 comments)
Sometimes, the good guys still win...
Lost in the higher profile
Elianapalooza with regard to the Pulitzer Prizes was the editorial writing prize awarded to the relatively small Rutland (VT) Herald's David Moats, who championed the recognition of same-sex couples on an equal legal footing with inter-sex couples. Quietly, eloquently but always with the utmost conviction, Moats' series of editorials together form a compelling, difficult to refute argument, enabling his Pulitzer victory over the Arizona Republic and the New York Times.
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:24 AM on April 18, 2001
(2 comments)
DeathDorm.com?
The Florida ISP responsible for those high-quality entertainment sites
VoyeurDorm.com and
DudeDorm.com (note that both of those links resolve to "adult content") sues the Feds for the right to put a webcam in the viewing room when Timothy McVeigh is executed on May 16th. As noted here previously, McVeigh wanted the execution
televised, so it's hard to imagine
he would be opposed...
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 9:14 AM on April 8, 2001
(17 comments)
Shareholders are shocked
- shocked, I tell you! - to discover that Larry Ellison has been overstating Oracle's capabilities and earning potentials in public... and personally profiting from the deceit to the tune of
$895 million! What
will the little Gates-hating, sex-harassing genius think of next?!
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:41 AM on March 11, 2001
(8 comments)
From our
No Matter How It Reads The Article Can't Live Up To The Headline Dept. in beautiful downtown Janesville, MN comes the news that
Michael Jackson to Speak on Family Values... The world, no doubt, waits with bated breath...
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 2:44 PM on January 11, 2001
(14 comments)
Screen Wars,
a decent stab by Stephen Levy from Newsweek/MSNBC at summarizing the changes afoot in desktop OS GUIs. Credit where credit is due for some notable Apple alums; more faith than is justified in .NET.
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 9:45 AM on December 5, 2000
(14 comments)
Rent-A-Riot,
or, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mob"... Taking my cue from the Repubs themselves I say, "Where's the outrage?!"
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:35 PM on November 29, 2000
(1 comment)
With all the recent MeFi Flash-trashing and usability-ranting in mind, I am just now getting around to the viewing the website for Darren Aronofsky's
Requiem for a Dream (Flash required).
Aronofsky defends the site in a brief interview with the online version of print mag Entertainment Weekly. It certainly could be classified as annoying, but then, that appears to be Aronofsky's point. Coming from anyone less talented than he, I'd say it was just posturing; here, I'm not sure...
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 10:43 AM on November 27, 2000
(5 comments)
The end is near.
Judge Terry Lewis rules that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris can disregard recounts in Florida counties.
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:45 AM on November 17, 2000
(10 comments)
The
Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution looks like it states that Texas cannot, in fact, cast its electoral votes for Bush and Cheney. Although he was careful to be photographed in Jackson Hole, WY, Cheney is in fact a resident of Texas and has a Texas driver's license. (Overheard from radio news) (Discuss)
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:00 AM on November 9, 2000
(14 comments)
"Gee... I'm kinda thirsty... and I think I gotta pee, too... Lemme see, there's this big hotel's lobby, those five or six restaurants... and this hole-in-the-wall-bar with the entrance you could walk right by and not even know it was there, whose patrons all seem to be men casting admiring glances at each other across the room... Seems OK to me..." Yeah, buddy,
I believe your story...
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at 12:39 PM on September 22, 2000
(1 comment)
While I can see how this is beneficial,
it still completely creeps me out. Oh, sure, I'm getting used to the fact that I can buy anything and everything on the Internet now, but the idea that I can go to DiseasedOrgans.Amazon.com and toss a coupla pounds of cancer-ridden spleen into my electronic shopping cart is just a little too much for me...
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 11:47 AM on September 1, 2000
(4 comments)
When colleagues in countries outside the U.S. attempt to get me to understand how the rest of the world could loathe us quite as much as they do,
this is what they are talking about. "Well, shee-oot, they don' even speak English down there, howthehell they gonna know them tires is not safe? Just slap a little ol' label on 'em and
say they're safe.... Oughta be good 'nough!"
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at 12:05 PM on August 29, 2000
(16 comments)
"And you're little dog, too!"
(via Taken Outtacontext in an
unrelated post).
Finally someone puts this whole
Survivor nonsense into terms I can understand. The PC-types are going to be all over Stuever on this one, but
damn it's funny!
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:18 AM on August 23, 2000
(4 comments)
Not
just a deranged, hateful old man with a gun... a
drunken deranged, hateful old man with a gun...
(I personally attended an event at one of these "various universities" - social drinker my ass...)
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 4:57 AM on August 1, 2000
(37 comments)
I am shocked - shocked, I say!- to discover that the Linux/Open Source media would operate using the same sort of shenanigans as the media covering the Evil Empire!
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:00 AM on July 14, 2000
(8 comments)
The Last Refuge... invaded...
Yes, I have a cell phone. Yes, I use it.
But, I turn if off any place it would be rude to be having a full-voiced conversation, because
I hate it when people make or take a call in those situations. I'd always sort of
enjoyed the fact that the airlines claim they'll screw up navigation systems; whether they do or not, it means I don't have to listen to a dozen suits around me trying to out-do each other a-wheelin' and a-dealin and a-squealin' up and down the aisles. Guess I won't be flying Virgin Atlantic again any time soon...
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 7:40 AM on July 6, 2000
(17 comments)
Oh, happy day!
Just when thought the 2000 US Presidential Race was going to be a woebegone contest between
Dull and
Duller, the impish whackjob returns for yet another round of merry hi-jinks and paranoiac delusions presented as fact!
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 11:29 AM on June 29, 2000
(4 comments)
US Senate approves hate crimes legislation
as an amendment to a military spending bill. All of the Democrats (minus Byrd) and thirteen Republicans brought the tally to 57-42. As was
recently discussed here, this is a contentious issue, even among those who support some type of increased punitive power based on the perpetrator's state of mind and opinions.
posted to MetaFilter by m.polo
at 5:17 PM on June 20, 2000
(3 comments)
